Mark Kent wrote:
> begin oe_protect.scr
> Chuck Whealton <chuck_whealton@xxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> >
> > Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> >> __/ [ Chuck Whealton ] on Saturday 26 August 2006 18:21 \__
> >>
> >> > nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> >> Quote:
> >> >> --------------
> >> >> The Japanese consumer electronics companies aim to develop
> >> >> broadband-enabled televisions that can download and display videos from
> >> >> the internet wihtout the need for a separate set-top box or computer.
> >> >>
> >> >> They plan to establish a common standard for aspects of internet TV,
> >> >> based on a Linux operating system.
> >> >> -----------
> >> >> End quote
> >> >>
> >> >> http://informitv.com/articles/2006/08/05/internettvplans/
> >> >
> >> > This would be great. One of the biggest problems I personally see with
> >> > upcoming televisiion technologies is the cost per set top box. If I
> >> > have eight televisiions in my house (example only) and I have to shovel
> >> > out $3 - $5 for a set top box for each one, it gets uneconomical very
> >> > fast.
> >>
> >> Don't forget costs that are associated with Windows (Media Centre), if it
> >> ever catches on. Microsoft has some program going on with the French... an
> >> IPTV initiative. There was something with the Germans more recently, but I
> >> can't recall the details. They are meeting executives in media giants to
> >> persuade them to choose a lockin route (surprise, surprise!). Sky have got
> >> some Windows-XP-only offer. I can't recall the details either (Jim Moore
> >> will know).
> >>
> >> Best wishes,
> >>
> >> Roy
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Roy S. Schestowitz | Windows is 'intuitive': go to 'Start' to finish session
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> >
> > It doesn't shock me that they'de try and lock something in with
> > anybody. Whereas I don't blame them as a business for looking out for
> > their own interests, consumers do need to look after our own interests
> > and one of them is NOT paying any company per set top box, per month,
> > just so we can watch television. I don't mind paying for the
> > television service itself, but these extra hardware charges strike me
> > as a serious expense. If they weren't out to use it for more dollars,
> > we'de be able to buy these set top boxes for a reasonable price, just
> > as we used to be able to legally purchase analog converter boxes.
> >
> > Charles R. Whealton
> > Charles Whealton @ pleasedontspam.com
> >
>
> This is precisely why the Japanese manufacturers are going out of their
> way to avoid using such as Microsoft Windows. You might not be aware,
> but there is an interesting precedent for this. When Sony first
> started making televisions for the PAL markets (Europe, Oz/Nz, Hong
> Kong and various British Commonwealth countries), the Telefunken patent
> for the phase-alternation was still in place, so they did a PAL->NTSC
> conversion in the set, and displayed NTSC pictures. These particular
> Sony televisions were the /only/ PAL-region TVs ever to have a "hue"
> control, which nobody in PAL regions had a clue as to what to do with.
>
> Europeans didn't grow-up with green skin on people (a la NTSC), but at
> least one brand of television could /make/ it that way if you wanted to
> :-)
>
> Sigfile material from yonks ago:
>
> NTSC = Never Twice the Same Colour
> PAL = Pictures At Last
>
> ;-)
>
> (anyone who's seen both will understand the joke).
>
> --
> | Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
> Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
> -- Ken Kesey
Well I absolutely hope they succeed. I don't have as much of a problem
paying for the service as I do getting dollars extracted from my family
and I each month, for each required piece of hardware (outside of the
television) to use that service.
Charles R. Whealton
Charles Whealton @ pleasedontspam.com
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